Posted on 03/06/2015 2:34:48 PM PST by xzins
Live Science reported in January on research being done by scientists at Ganogen, Inc., a biotech company in California, that transplants organs from aborted babies into lab rats with the goal of growing them for use in patients who need organ transplants.
“Researchers say they have developed a new technique that will get more kidneys to people who need transplants, but the method is sure to be controversial: The research shows that it is feasible to remove a kidney from an aborted human fetus, and implant the organ into a rat, where the kidney can grow to a larger size,” the Jan. 21 article stated.
In the article, Eugene Gu, a medical student at Duke University and the founder and CEO of the company, said "Our long-term goal is to grow human organs in animals, to end the human donor shortage.”
Although ending the human donor shortage seems like a noble cause, using aborted babies to solve the problem is not acceptable, according to pro-life activist and former labor and delivery nurse Jill Stanek.
"This is horrific on so many levels,” Stanek told CNSNews.com, calling it “abominable” to take organs from murdered pre-born babies to use in post-born humans.
“It is easy to see where this is heading: toward the day when human beings will be grown in the lab specifically for organ and tissue harvesting,” said Stanek, who has devoted herself to the pro-life cause after witnessing aborted babies who survived being left to die in the hospital where she worked.
Hank Greely, an ethical and legal expert on biomedical science at Stanford Law School, is quoted in the Live Science article as saying that the decision to have an abortion must not be linked to this kind of research.
"The key issues are the existence of the pregnant woman's consent and the total separation of the decision to abort from the decision to let the fetal remains be used in research," Greely told Live Science.
In other words, a woman must have already decided to have an abortion before she can be asked whether she is willing to donate the fetus for research, according to Live Science.
The article does not say where the research company obtained the aborted babies.
Its findings were published in the Jan. 22 edition of the American Journal of Transplantation.
The abstract of the article states: “Here we introduce a novel method of transplanting human fetal kidneys into adult rats. To overcome the technical challenges of fetal-to-adult organ transplantation, we devised an arterial flow regulator (AFR), consisting of a volume adjustable saline-filled cuff, which enables low-pressure human fetal kidneys to be transplanted into high-pressure adult rat hosts.
“By incrementally withdrawing saline from the AFR over time, blood flow entering the human fetal kidney was gradually increased until full blood flow was restored 30 days after transplantation. Human fetal kidneys were shown to dramatically increase in size and function. Moreover, rats which had all native renal mass removed 30 days after successful transplantation of the human fetal kidney were shown to have a mean survival time of 122 days compared to 3 days for control rats that underwent bilateral nephrectomy without a prior human fetal kidney transplant.”
You can almost hear the footsteps of the Messiah. Maranatha.
There’s a special place in hell reserved for these people.
Which is a far worse fate than merely getting the fire-and-brimstone treatment in this life.
From that perspective, allowing "us" to wallow in our sins to the very end is far worse than merely getting nuked.
I think in terms of individual salvation, you are correct, HiTech. But in terms of governments, God has the expectation that they ‘servants to do good’(Rom 13:4f). In our nation, God has placed both the culture and the government in the hands of the citizenry, the voters. God expects a wholesome culture, and while He has used some deathly cultures to bring His vengeance on His own and other civilizations in the past, His intent has to always be justice and holiness if He sees them as ‘servants of good’.
Well the answer is as always found in evangelism — NOT moralism —
Morality is incurably relative (and powerless to do any good) without the specific spiritual foundation of Christ and Christ’s love.
There is at best a limited amount they can do. Their mandate comes through Noah, not through Moses or from Christ, and they never pretended to save a single soul. What’s more in Paul’s time prosecutions were private. If someone got murdered, it was up to the family to beg Roman courts for recourse.
Abortion ought to be banned along with other homicide. Forget about the fruits of it, that is arguing about the cherry on top of a rotten cake.
But a society can get SO bad that evangelism is the only civilized way to make its folly stop.
You really want to impress people? Put your picture up on your profile page! ha
In addition to evangelism, it’s important to remember that The Declaration of Independence makes a biblical case for political revolution
It’s their way of creating more democrats.
A document that isn’t in the bible, so it bears careful scrutiny no matter how long it has been in hallowed history.
America might have talked God-talk but its walk was at best a mix that included a lot of world-walk. God has practically said by now “I bet you now wish you only had King George to wrangle with.”
If I can get $10 for donating blood, I wonder how much my wife can get for donating an entire baby, um, I mean fetus.
Could be a pretty good source of income for low-income single moms.
Although how can they tell if the fetus has healthy organs or not? It would seem wise to let them be born first and wait a few weeks to make sure they are healthy and would be able to have good organs.
(I hope God recognizes my sarcasm and doesn’t send a bolt my way.).
Since there is no longer a viable republican party at the national level, there is less and less need to create more democrats. Creating members of the socialist uniparty.
Keep on ironicing on
It certainly isn’t bible...no doubt about that, but it is a valid argument.
In sum: God’s laws and granted rights eventually compel self-defense. Not many would argue with it.
Kind of gross. But the real issue is the killing, not what is done with the body after it is killed.
Transplanting the organs isn’t what is evil. Murder by abortion is the unacceptable evil act.
Haha, I am not trying as much to impress, as to say it’s time to stand up oppose evil.
As for the way I look, I blame my parents.
Murder to rob is worse than simple murder...at least according to our capital punishment laws.
Still....please, or bless everyone here and post your picture. hahahaha You can impress everyone while you say it’s time to stand up and oppose evil.
So George kills Sandy, dismembers her and scatters her body parts.
And we hear criticism mostly of what he did to her dead body?
IMO it’s the murder that’s the main crime, the disposal of the body is by comparison irrelevant.
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